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A fictional example corpus that ships with the kit. Yours stays private. This is the worked example for the persona Sam Rivers, rendered read-only from examples/sam-rivers/ so you can see a whole life stack before you write your own.

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The living example

A whole life stack, in plain markdown.

This is Sam Rivers, an indie game developer: a fictional worked corpus that ships inside the kit. Every file below is real markdown the agent reasons over, grouped by horizon from principles down to the daily journal. Read any of it; nothing here is yours to fill in yet.

Principles

What Sam stands for, each backed by dated evidence.

Vision

Who Sam is becoming, three to five years out.

Goals

Outcomes with falsifiable success criteria.

Areas

Standards Sam maintains, with no finish line.

  • healthareas/health.mdactive · ongoing

Projects

Finite outcomes with a finish line.

Habits

Repeating reps that keep a principle honest.

Decisions

Choices recorded with their context and consequences.

Journal

Daily captures: one decision, one friction, one surprise.

  • 2026-02-24journal/2026-02-24.mddaily · 2026-02-24
  • 2026-02-26journal/2026-02-26.mddaily · 2026-02-26

Reflections

Evidence entries the principles are built on.

Reviews

Weekly, monthly, and coherence passes over the whole stack.

Run it yourself

See the same report on your own machine.

Everything here is generated from plain markdown. Clone the template and run the weekly coherence report over this exact example corpus before you tell the system anything about yourself.

python scripts/coherence.py examples/sam-rivers
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